Wiggenweld Potion

The Wiggenweld Potion is a potion that revives people from the Draught of Living Death. A young wizard Prince smeared this potion on his lips and kissed a princess under the Draught’s effects. She had pricked her finger on a spindle coated with the Draught (FW).

Ingredients

The exact ingredients may vary from game to game:

Wiggentree Bark

Horklump juice

Dittany

Moly

Flobberworm mucus

Chizpurfle fangs

Billywig sting slime

a sprig of mint

Boom Berry Juice

Mandrake, stewed

Honeywater

Sloth brain mucus

Moondew drops

Salamander blood

Lionfish spines

Unicorn horn

Wolfsbane

Preparation

Preparation varies according to the video game. In some games the potion isn't brewed, but found and put into a vial. While the potion seems to originally have been the antidote to the Draught of Living Death, in the games it exists to give Harry stamina points. View an example of Wiggenweld preparation in this Fan-made Video.

History and Notes

This is a reference to the Muggle fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty. Wiggenweld Potion first appeared in the video games from Electronic Arts and was subsequently mentioned on a Famous Wizard card for the Hag Leticia Somnolens, making it part of the canon.

References from the canon

The main ingredient is bark from the Wiggentree, a type of rowan that gives protection from Dark creatures (Pm).

Snape mentions wormwood and asphodel as ingredients in Draught of Living Death, but not the cure (PS8)